Debra and Chuck Holland are avid lifelong learners, community volunteers, and stewards of the land and waters in North Kitsap. Salmon can be spotted hugging the shoreline at their home…
Climate Resilient Forest Management at Grovers Creek Preserve
Scroll through the StoryMap to learn more about GPC’s management plans at Grovers Creek Preserve.
Community Support at Filucy Bay Preserve
Great Peninsula Conservancy’s Filucy Bay Preserve protects 119 acres of beautiful shoreline, salt marsh, and forest near Longbranch on Key Peninsula. At the end of July, a generous community member…
Conservation For All
On June 18, people gathered at Sehmel Homestead Park for a Walk & Talk focused on celebrating the diversity of human and more-than-human communities during Pride Month. Leading the Walk…
Bird Songs That Tell a Conservation Story
Last month, Great Peninsula Conservancy was awarded a $25,000 grant from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative. The award will facilitate a collaboration with GPC, Daniel…
Taking a “Lichen” to Mosses & Lichens
On April 29, thirty people showed up in the Banner Forest Heritage Park’s parking lot at the head of the trails for an exciting morning spent examining the forest floor…
Hansville Greenway and the Secret Lives of Birds
GPC’s second Walk & Talk of the year was a birding expedition out at Hansville Greenway with field ornithologist Dan Froehlich. Dan is an expert bird handler and tour guide…
Shoreline Geology at Misery Point
At the end of August, 24 GPC members and neighbors gathered at the Misery Point Preserve near Seabeck for our second installment of the Walk and Talk series. Hugh Shipman,…
This Forest On The Kitsap Is Protected – Forever
On Washington’s Kitsap Peninsula – that arrow-shaped piece of land between Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula – Great Peninsula Conservancy is working to conserve and restore degraded shorelines, peat bogs, forests,…
Before & After: Restoration at Hahobas
GPC’s Hahobas Shoreline Preserve has had a facelift. The cabin that afforded former Boy Scout members a phenomenal waterside viewshed for over 60 years has been removed. Although the cabin…